That's why we're staging LIVE 8. 10 concerts, 100 artists, a million spectators, 2 billion viewers, and 1 message... To get those 8 men, in that 1 room, to stop 30,000 children dying every single day of extreme poverty.
We don't want your money - we want you!
Well, according to Geldof, Live 8 is not Live Aid 2. Like
Leonard, Part 6, this “sequel” is meant to stand on its own merit. Live 8 will bring together over 100 different musical acts in 10 different cities and is scheduled just before the July 6-9 meeting of the G8 Leaders. It is a coordinated musical effort to get the G8 leaders to start tapping their feet and humming along, thereby canceling African debt, injecting new money into the continent and “delivering trade justice.” Whatever that means. Hey, Bono’s gonna be there!!
Some of the Numbers.
· Price of a bottle of water:
$6
· Percentage of things made of hemp (excluding actual narcotics):
73
· Times President Bush was called a criminal:
65.5
· Times President Bush was called a war criminal:
49.5
· Ounces of hair product that Bono uses:
22
· Shout-outs by Bono to Kofi Annan:
3
· “Mourn you ‘til I join you” shout-outs by Bono to Pope JP the 2:
4
· Protesters:
150,000
· Protesters protesting issues that are
totally unrelated to the cause Live 8 is advocating:
100,000
· Food consumed by concert goers (in pounds):
250,000
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Number of starving Africans food consumed by concert goers could feed: 750,000